[seam-dev] Seam Reports

[George Gastaldi]

Hello Ken !

The initial proposal was to extract the Seam Mail classes onto Seam
Reports. Seam Render would be moved to there also.

Thinking better, I guess that it would be better if Seam Reports
depended on Seam Render and Seam Mail be left as it is.

What do you guys think ? Suggestions welcome,

George


2011/5/18 Ken Finnigan <ken at kenfinnigan.me>:
> Hi George,
>
> Just wanted to clarify whether you mean that the classes from Seam Mail for
> rendering would be extracted out into the Seam Render module or Seam
> Reports?  The way I read it it could be either way.
>
> If the former, then I think that would be a good idea.  If the latter, then
> I'd be concerned about the linkages to Reports from Mail.
>
> Regards
> Ken
>
>
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 6:34 PM, George Gastaldi <gegastaldi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello All !
>>
>> Seam Reports is a portable extension for Java EE that provides APIs
>> for compiling, populating and rendering reports (Excel, PDF, etc) from
>> existing report frameworks (JasperReports, etc).
>>
>> I invite anyone to try it and join it when possible.
>> The module page for Seam Reports is online also:
>> http://seamframework.org/Seam3/ReportsModule
>>
>> Now that you are familiar with the subject, I´ll share some thoughts below
>> ! :D
>>
>> I have spoken with Jason Porter and Pete Royle about incorporating
>> Seam Render capabilities on this module also.
>> The idea is, since this module produces documents, it would be nice to
>> extract the classes used for rendering content on Seam Mail, for
>> example to this module.
>> The inter-module dependencies should not be required at first glance
>> (Maybe from API).
>> It would be nice if this module provided an API for generating some
>> content (let´s say, use Velocity to generate a XHTML and XHTMLRenderer
>> - https://xhtmlrenderer.dev.java.net - to generate a PDF for example)
>> .
>> So whenever you need to render a document, the answer is straight
>> clear: use Seam Reports :)
>>
>> What do you guys think ?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> George Gastaldi
>> -------------------------------------------
>> Seam Reports Module Leader
>>
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